ACTIVATING ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Work toward an ecological society, where organizations and organizers create the conditions for mutually beneficial relationships across species, social space, and time. Discover tools that help you to activate ecological society. Identify communities to work with and your best role. Learn how to navigate power structures to make change and how to weave together different ways of knowing. Reframe problems into questions, use processes for consensus building, and galvanize dissent into purpose. Develop competency in identifying predominant organizations (for-profit, non-profit, and cutting-edge entities such as community trusts). Create an action portfolio demonstrating an ability to activate ecological society.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Satisfied Communications A Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Comm QR - Communication B Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Work with a community to make social and ecological change. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe how power influences access to resources and opportunities. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the innerworkings of organizations, such as corporations and non-profits. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Use collaborative methods to analyze a problem, identify how the problem can be turned into a question, and develop strategies to address that question. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and make skillful use of relevant, reliable, and high-quality research sources appropriate to Community and Environmental Sociology. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Use the writing process to develop a fledgling idea into a formal project and presentation. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Work with a community to make social and ecological change. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe how power influences access to resources and opportunities. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the innerworkings of organizations, such as corporations and non-profits. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Use collaborative methods to analyze a problem, identify how the problem can be turned into a question, and develop strategies to address that question. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and make skillful use of relevant, reliable, and high-quality research sources appropriate to Community and Environmental Sociology. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Use the writing process to develop a fledgling idea into a formal project and presentation. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027